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In 1962, along with 10 other Washington ­University students, I boarded an aging student ship in New York bound for ­Strasbourg, France, to participate in the ­university’s first Junior Year Abroad in France.

Members of the Wash. U. community follow their research goals to the far corners of the world.

Today’s newborns are joining families as the third generation to have access to so much food and so many unhealthy choices. “Obesity is an intergenerational phenomenon and is about to become ‘trigenerational,’” says obesity-prevention expert Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, the Joyce Wood Professor and associate dean for research at the Brown School.

How do we solve the global warming crisis?

An all-star lineup of faculty share ideas for realizing your most creative self.

Faculty members share their research with national media.

During fun-filled Bear Beginnings: New Student Fall Orientation events, new students get acclimated quickly to the university and to each other.

As chief operating officer of DoSomething.org, Aria Finger, AB ’05, dreams up innovative and effective ways to engage youth in social causes.​

After Superstorm Sandy left many major East Coast cities underwater and upturned, Adria Crutchfield, AB ’03, positioned herself at the center of the recovery efforts.